Two boats collide, 1 sinks near Hatteras, N.C.

The shrimping boat Tina Rae and the catamaran Locura collided about 3 a.m. Tuesday morning approximately 12 nautical miles east of Cape Hatteras causing the Tina Rae to sink.

Coast Guard watchstanders deployed a Station Hatteras Inlet 47-foot rescue boat crew after they received distress calls on the radio and picked up an alert from the Locura’s Electronic Position Indicating Radio Beacon.

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